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Patented Dec. 5, I899. J. B. BARNES.

OIL CAN.

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(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,678, dated December 5, 1899.

Application filed April 21, 1899. Serial No. 713,955. (No model.)

To to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ferrysburg, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cans for oiling bicycle-bearings and similar bearings where the dripping of oil will smear and badly disfigure the parts oiled; and the object of my invention is to avert this danger. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a can with the top of the guard cut away to show the position of the absorbent used therein, and Fig. 2 is the same with the cap or shield of the guard cut away to show an absorbent therein and with a spring to actuate the guard to carry it toward the end ofthe spout of the can.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

I do not wish to restrict myself to any par ticular form of can or to the placing of the spout E in any particular position, but have shown the form and position in the drawings as the most convenient to illustrate my invention.

The spout E is of the usual tapering form and extends to the can A in the usual manner. My invention consists in placing a tube or jacket B around this spout and an extension 0 around the tube or jacket, so that it may be extended until the outer end stands nearly or quite to the end of the spout, and in the end thereof I place an absorbent-as felt, sponge, or other suitable material-so that when I am oiling a bearing I can place this absorbent in position to take up any drop or particle of oil that may appear on the surface of the bearing or may remain on the point of the spout, and thus avert the danger of leaving the bearing or oil-hole smeared with oil to accumulate dust and render the wheel, axletree, or other oiled portion of the machine unsightly and untidy.

In my cheaper form of protectors I make the extension-slot substantially the form shown by the reference-letter c in Fig. 1, so that it may be manipulated entirely by hand; but in my better can I place a spiral spring F around the guard B, so that one end presses against the top of the can and the other end against the lower end of the extension, so that when the extension is turned so that the pin 1) enters the main slot 0 the spring will force the extension out to position to protect the end of the spout with the absorbent D, as hereinbefore stated.

0' represents the cover or cap that screws onto the top of the extension for the purpose of protecting the point of the spout in the usual manner and averting the danger of oil leaking from the can when not in use, and to more fully accomplish this end I sometimes place a small amount of some available absorbent, as D, into the end of this cap, as shown in Fig. 2, in position to allow the end of the spout to be embedded into it a short distance. I

I do not desire to restrict myself to the use of an extension, as it may be plainly seen that if I secure the tube 0 to the position indicated in Fig. 1, so that it could not be raised and lowered on the spout, the absorbent would have the same effect, the only advantage of having this tube and the absorbent adjustable being to enable me to avail myself of the use of a long spout or of a short spout, as the circumstances may demand.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In combination, an oil-can, a dischargespout thereon, a protecting-tube around said spout, an extension on said tube, and a protecting-cap, with an absorbent in the top of the extension in position to protect the point of the spout, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination, an oil-can, a dischargespout thereon, a protecting-tube around said spout, and an extension on said tube, with an absorbent in the end of the extension and a spiral actuating-spring back of the extension, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Spring Lake, Michigan, April 15, 1899.

JAMES B. BARNES.

In presence of- MARTIN WALSH, ALEXANDER Woon. 

